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Cmder is awesome. I use it as a better interface to msysgit (I don't find myself needing to actually work in `cmd.exe` much anymore). I switched to it from Con
by yoklov 11y ago
Cmder is awesome. I use it as a better interface to msysgit (I don't find myself needing to actually work in `cmd.exe` much anymore).
I switched to it from Console2 pretty recently (last week, actually) and only have good things to say. I only wish I could use it with zsh without having to buy into the rest of cygwin (I find msys to be much better in nearly every way).
- notsony 11y agoSo I would use Cmder instead of the standard console cmd.exe? When would I use msysgit? Is it a competitor to Cygwin or does it solve a different problem?
- yoklov 11y agoYou might. That's it's default configuration. I'm not really an expert on the differences between msys and cygwin, but i believe msys solves a subset of the problems solved by cygwin, while remaining much closer to how the OS actually functions (instead of keeping windows and unix totally separate, it does its best to merge them). Msysgit is part of the standard git distribution on windows, I believe, and so many people already have it installed. It comes with a bash-like shell, which is what I'm talking about in the post above.